Posts Tagged ‘english’

1) Why are we here? How do you see our goals in these protests, tools to achieve these goals and how are we succeeding at the moment?

2) What about the G20? What are they trying to achieve?

3) The police is acting aggressively. How do you see their strategy?

4) The mainstream media is concentrating to the violence of the protestors, not to the violence of the police, not to mention to the violence of global capitalism. What do you think of the behaviour of mainstream journalists?

5) What do you think about the current state of mass demonstrations? What can we achieve here that we cannot achieve elsewhere?

6) What are in your opinion the most central themes, questions or challenges for the progressive movements at the moment?

7) What greetings would you like to send for the revolutionaries of our time?

Dilar Dirik & Rojava’s feminist revolution

Activist, feminist and PhD student Dilar Dirik came to Finland for the first weekend of April 2016 to talk about the feminist revolution at Rojava. At Tampere, she spoke about the kurdish women’s movement, feminism and democratic confederalism in Rojava. Dirik’s lecture at University of Tampere on the 1st of April was recorded by Totuusradio. This event was organized by a local Rojava-solidarity group Yhdessä Rojavan puolesta and the feminist organization Vattu.

Dirik talks the ideas of the Rojava revolution, partly based on her research trips to the region. What lessons can we draw from this democratic project in Rojava? Can the idea of Democratic Autonomy spread? What should our solidarity look like?

After the event Ina and Juho from Yhdessä Rojavan puolesta interviewed Dirik for Totuusradio. Migration in Rojava and the education system in Rojava were discussed among other questions.

The programme will be listenable and downloadable in the programme archive (ohjelma-arkisto).

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04 2016

Sandro Mezzadra, Tadzio Müller (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) and Shora Esmailian talk about the current state of global capitalism, the changes of climate change in the near future, the connections between capitalism, climate change and immigration, the contemporary forms of capitalist oppression and exploitation and the future of organizing within the emancipatory movements. In the beginning we hear a poem from Lotta Tenhunen, spoken by Maarja Kaasik. The programme is put together by Lasse Poser in connection with the upcoming theatre peace The Digital Hats Game. The music is originally chosen by Joonas Aleksi for the internet magazine Kumu.info.

The programme will be listenable and downloadable in the programme archive (ohjelma-arkisto).

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02 2016

The Left Forum think tank, in collaboration with Transform! Europe network, organized last saturday an international seminar in Helsinki to discuss Left solutions to the problems of climate policy. For example the following themes were discussed: How to build a grassroots climate movement, and how would such a movement function in relation to party politics? What kinds of structural barriers to solving the climate crisis do the capitalist mode of production and the related power structures create? How should the categories of citizenship and borders be re-assessed given the condition of the climate crisis?

Totuusradio sends now the presentations held at the seminar. We hear the presentations of Rikard Warlenius, Andreas Ytterstad and Shora Esmailian. Warlenius is a journalist, PhD student in human ecology and Left Party city councillor in Stockholm. He has authored several books on climate issues. Ytterstad in a scholar of journalism and one of the leading figures of the Norwegian climate movement. In his writings, Ytterstad has specifically discussed the role of civil society in the struggle for a carbon-neutral future and environmentally sustainable employment. Esmailian is a journalist and has written a book about climate refugees.

The event also functioned as a publication event of the book ”The Politics of Ecosocialism”.

The programme will be listenable and downloadable in the programme archive (ohjelma-arkisto).

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10 2015

Radical Philosophy is a UK-based journal of socialist and feminist philosophy, the first issue of which appeared in January 1972. The Radical Philosophy Conference 2015 took place in Germany (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) and discussed topics such as Acceleration & the New, Artistic Strike, Secrecy & Surveillance, Queer Theory & Geopolitics, Pedagogization, Philosophy of the Essay-Film, Animalities, On Organisation.

Totuusradio plays a selection of the presentations held in the conference:

Frank Engster: The Conditions of Acceleration: Money as a Technique of MeasurementClaire Fontaine: Human Strike or an Art of RevoltFahim Amir: Zoooperaism – Provincialising the HumanPeter Hallward: What is a Political Party?